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ACS Photonics
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ACS Photonics

Published by: American Chemical Society Publications

https://pubs.acs.org/journal/apchd5

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 23 153 416 50
Materials Science 99 683 942 58

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1275
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1571
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 45
SCIMAGO H-index: 141
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.992
Impact Factor: 6.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at ACS Photonics?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Optoelectronics, Plasmon, Optics, Photonics and Nanotechnology. Discussions in it are anchored in the subject of Optoelectronics and the similar topic of Laser. It features studies on Laser, including topics such as Lasing threshold.

The journal focuses on Plasmon but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Nanoparticle, Surface plasmon resonance and Condensed matter physics. ACS Photonics concentrated on Optics research, specifically Polarization (waves), Metamaterial, Scattering, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) and Refractive index. The study on Quantum dot presented in ACS Photonics intersects with subjects under the field of Photoluminescence.

  • Optoelectronics (58.03%)
  • Plasmon (27.64%)
  • Optics (25.36%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Graphene Plasmonics: Challenges and Opportunities (817 citations)
  • Plasmonic Films Can Easily Be Better: Rules and Recipes (582 citations)
  • Total Absorption in a Graphene Monolayer in the Optical Regime by Critical Coupling with a Photonic Crystal Guided Resonance (386 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at ACS Photonics:

The most cited publications tackle a plethora of topics, such as Optoelectronics, Optics, Plasmon, Photonics and Nanotechnology. The most cited publications explore issues in Optoelectronics which can be linked to other research areas like Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) and Laser. The studies on Plasmon discussed at the journal papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Graphene, Nanoparticle, Surface plasmon resonance and Nanophotonics.

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in ACS Photonics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Stefan A. Maier (42 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yuri S. Kivshar (38 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Harald Giessen (31 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Shanhui Fan (30 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Dragomir N. Neshev (21 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in ACS Photonics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (118 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (72 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (71 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Nanyang Technological University (63 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Imperial College London (63 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 2.65% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.71% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.99% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.62% of all publications and 50.68% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Electrically Tunable Metasurface with Independent Frequency and Amplitude Modulations

    Jin Zhang;Xingzhan Wei;Ivan D. Rukhlenko;Ivan D. Rukhlenko;Hou-Tong Chen

    (2020)
    311 Citations
  • Nanophotonic Structural Colors

    Soroosh Daqiqeh Rezaei;Zhaogang Dong;John You En Chan;Jonathan Trisno

    (2021)
    302 Citations
  • Dielectric Resonant Metaphotonics

    (2020)
    273 Citations
  • Dielectric Resonant Metaphotonics

    Yuri S. Kivshar

    (2021)
    242 Citations
  • Metal–Semiconductor–Metal ε-Ga2O3 Solar-Blind Photodetectors with a Record-High Responsivity Rejection Ratio and Their Gain Mechanism

    Yuan Qin;Liheng Li;Xiaolong Zhao;Gary S. Tompa

    (2020)
    232 Citations
  • High-Q All-Dielectric Metasurface: Super and Suppressed Optical Absorption

    Jingyi Tian;Qiang Li;Pavel A Belov;Ravindra Kumar Sinha

    (2020)
    218 Citations
  • Theoretical Challenges in Polaritonic Chemistry

    (2021)
    194 Citations
  • Relevance of the Quadratic Diamagnetic and Self-Polarization Terms in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.

    Christian Schäfer;Michael Ruggenthaler;Vasil Rokaj;Angel Rubio;Angel Rubio

    (2020)
    172 Citations

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